If you haven’t seen this, you need to. Intense.

Took some video today at the local hill, with a new pocket HD camcorder. Need practice — it has no wide angle lens, but I’m really happy with the quality.

Larger displaying Quicktime file available at http://www.texaslongboarder.net/videos/hillskate2.mov — 29 megs.

My friend Marshall shot this footage from his Kodak Zi8 “Flip” style pocket camcorder. I offer up the raw video — no editing at all. While the camera work is a bit shaky, I think Marshall go some cool shots. Also, I was impressed by the quality of the video. Really nice stuff for such a small camera, and much better than the footage I get from my Canon point n shoot camera.

Actually, this isn’t the “real” raw footage. It is a Quicktime File, converted to Flash. The Quicktimes looks great. The Flash is not bad.

I was so impressed by the HD footage the little Kodak took that I have ordered one of these Sony Bloggies. The movable lens — mounted on sort of a cylinder at the top, should allow me to get some good camera angles.

I will eventually get some footage from another hill. Perhaps on a Central Texas road trip this spring. This hill is just so convenient, and that makes it great to just run out and take a few runs.

Took a few downhill runs with Chris yesterday. The hill wasn’t super fast, but no big deal. Chris was testing a new setup.

A little footage from Chris Doan, from last weekend’s Water Tower race down in Austin. Radicalness…